U~l1'IJ N NA1 ILLJ.. ie Michigan a V ILL Vol. XXIV, No. 14. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1913. PRICE FRESHMEN TO GENERATE PEP AT GATHERING Men of 1917 Will Assemble for First Time to Prepare for Class Rivalry Next Saturday. FOOTBALL STARS TO ADVISE NEWCOMERS FOR COMING SCRAP Mass Meeting Will Be Held in West Physics Hall Tomorrow Night at 7:00 O'clock. CANDIDATES FOR MANAGE- RIAL ELECTIONS SAT- URDAY. -0- Baseball Manager :- Walter Emmons, Herbert Muckley. Track Manager- Charles A. Crowe, Gordon C. Eldredge. Assistant Baseball Mgrs.:- Percy Crane, E. R. Hazen, Ralph F. Khuen, Chester H. Lang. Assistant Track Mgrs.:- Emmet F. Connely, Lyle Har- ris, Beresford Palmer,, Vic- tor Pinnell. CHEER LEADER TRYOUTS TO BE DISCONTINUED, COUNCIL TURNS DOWN PETITION Student Council Abandons Plan Account of Lack of Interest Among Seniors. OF SENIOR LITS Not Sanction Plea of Members Who.Want Renomination of Higher Class Offices. on I loes WORKMEN PREVENT PLANS FOR M. A. C. PEP POW-WOW Plans for a mass meeting at the Mlli~ auditorium -before the M. A. C. game Saturday have been interrupted by the work being done on the interior of the guilding by the marble workers. The marble slabs are being repaired, and it is feared that allowing a crowd to assemble on Friday night would be disastrous to the repaired parts. Witnesses Arrive for Saloon Case. James H. Minzey, '16, and Ward Hopkins, '16, arrived in the city last night and will testify for the prose- cution at the trial of Lawrence J. Damm which will be held in the cir- cuit court at 9:00 o'clock this morn- ing. UNION TO FEATURE FRIDAYEVENINGS "Lounging nights" will be observed at the Michigan Union beginning Fri- YOST MAY USE .NEW MATERII SIN BACKFII Pontius Bastian and Mead Effective Trio in Scrimma Against Reserves Yesterday REHAINDER OF LINEUp ALS - RECEIVES SEVERAL CHI COMMITTEE WILL APPOINT LEADER FOR REST OF YEAR * * Class Elections Will Be Held Friday Instead of Saturday. on "Men of seventeen" will hold their first demonstration of class spirit at a monster mass meeting in the west physics lecture room at 7:00 o'clock tomorrow night. The verdants will listen to talks by Captain George Pat- erson and M. H. Pontius, on "How to Sweep the Sophs off Their Feet in a Flag Rush." E. H. Saier will preside, and besides listening to live talks and practicing cheers,the"hopefuls"will have the rules of the rush and cane spree explained to them by Arthur Kohler, chairman of the rush committee. Captains for the two events are to be elected by the class as well as cheerleaders for the contest. Extra efforts will be taken this year to keep the crowds back. Photogra- phers will not be allowed upon the field without special permission and only a limited number will be given permission,. The rush is scheduled to begin Sat- urday morning at 9:30 o'clock at south Ferry field. A big delegation of M. A. C. rooters, which is expected to arrive at 10:00 o'clock, will help swell the number of spectators. Sophomores will meet Friday night at 7:00 o'clock, also in the west phys- ics lecture room. GERMAN-AMERICAN ALLIANCE ACCEPTS "MICHIGAN IDEA." The "Michigan Idea" of sending fac- ulty members to various meetings and conventions was endorsed by the Ger- man-American alliance at its national convention at St. Louis, Mo. October 6 to 11. A report suggesting that all ' other state universities adopt the same policy to further a close relationship between the people and the education- al institutions of the states was pre- sented by Professor Warren W. Florer who represented Michigan at the con- vention, and unanimously adopted. Professor Florer appointed one of the five members on the standing educational committee, thet object of which is to extend the studies of foreign languages, propose a unified course of studies, further the method of teaching foreign languages, and to draw up plans of the unified civil ser- vice examination for the teachers of German. The German-American alliance has a membership of 2,500,000, being the largest organization of its kind in the world. Soph Engineers Nominate for Offices. Nominations for officers of the soph engineering class, which were made in its meeting yesterday, are as follows: president, Albert Liese, Joseph G. Fer- rand, Howard Phillips, Horace Corey, and Louis B. Hyde; vice-president, John W. Finkenstaedt, W. L. Given, Harold Perry and Bruce Woodbury;- treasurer, F. E. Kaufman, Richard Jeter and R. C. Eastman; secretary, Jacob G. Milliken, Howard Phillips, Wesley Bintz. Elections will be held next week. WORK ON NEW POWER HOUSE I SUBSTATION IS UNDER WAY. Excavation is in progress for the power house substation which is to be erected at the junction of the old tun- nel system with the new connecting tunnel, between the medical building and the gymnasium. It will provide for the reduction of steam pressure, when necessary, ant will house a set of motor generators and convert- ers for the lighting system. It will be completed about the first of next year. UNION DINNER TO BE HELD TONIGHT "Thed Welcome Dinner' tonight is planned to be the greatest membership dinner of the Michigan Union," said Werner Schroeder, chairman of the dinner committee last night. The big function will be held at the Michigan Union at 5:30 o'clock and accommoda- tions will be made for a 200 attendance in the big dining room. Edward Haislip, '14L, chairman of the finance committee announced last night that most of the tickets have been sold, indicating a larger attend- ance than at the first membership dinner last year. However, the re- maining admission cards may be ob- tained from members of the commit- tee or at the Union desk. President Harry B. Hutchins will, deliver an address of welcome to Un- ion members, especially to the new men. Talks, vocal music, and a monologue have also been scheduled. Selden S. Dickinson, president of the Union, will preside. SHIFT PROBABLE ON FRESH TEAM' All-fresh stock seemed to take . a boost in the opinions of those who saw their play against Ypsilanti Normal last Saturday, but not so with the coach. According to their preceptor the youngsters became too well satis- fied with themselves as soon as they had the game tucked away by a com- fortable score, and seemed to loose in- terest in the quality of their work, in the last two quarters. Some drastic but as yet unannounc- Because of the disinterested attitude on the part of seniors toward the new system of tryouts for cheerleader, the student council at its regular meeting last night decided to discontinue the system for the present year. As a substitute, the council committee, which has been handling the tryouts, was given the power to appoint a cheerleader, who will act as head cheermaster for the rest of the year, and who will have three assistants whom he will appoint. The plan which has been on trial last spring and this fall, originally called for eight or more members of the senior class to act as tryouts, from whom the most popular four were to be elected by student vote. These four were to choose one of their own number to be head cheer leader. As only seven - tryouts appeared last spring, and only three at the last game, the impracticability of the scheme for this year was apparent. The appointment will probably be made before the M. A. C. game. Class elections in all departments will be held on Friday instead of Sat- urday. Freshman nominations were postponed until the beginning of next week, because of the 'other events which are scheduled for the latter part. of this week. John I. Lippincott, '14, was appointed as council member of the board committee. Union Expects Big Mid-Season Growth About 300 members were added to the Michigan Union during the 1912- 13 season With an equal mid-season growth this year the present member- ship of 2,561 will grow to a 2,900 mark in 1914. LAVANS WILL BE ENTIRE ARGUMENT RESTS ON TECHNICALITY IN POLLING Selection of 1914 Class Believed -to Have Been Made in Good Faith. After discussing the petition by 24 members of the senior literary class for an investigation of the methods of nominating president and vice-pres- ident last Friday, the motion to review the nomination procedure was defeated by the student council at its meeting last night. The reason given by the petitioners for an investigation of the nominations was based on a technical point. Ac- cording to the interclass constitution which governs elections, six men were nominated by secret ballot, each mem- ber of the class casting one vote. It happened that one man received a plurality, and the next three were tied. To break the tie for second place, an- other ballot was taken, each member of- the class voting again,. including those who had voted for the high man before. According to the petitioners, this was illegal in that it showedome men, those who had voted for the pre- vious high man, to vote twice, and thus not only decide the first man, but also the second choice. To remedy the injustice arising from the method, the petitioners requested the council to offer a remedy. The council acknowledged the pos- sibility of error in the scheme, but it was believed that the selection was made in good faith, and that a reopen- ing of the nominations would create more injustice than to leave the case in its present status. According to the interclass constitution, candidates may be nominated, by petition if the requir- ed number of signatures are obtained: The council held that this can be used in the present case, although three candidates on the ticket would cause more complications. EXTENSION SERIES HAS LARGE FIELD Prof. J. R. Brumm lectured in Birm- ingham last night before the Ladies club of that city upon, "The Escape from the Commonplace." This is th first of this season's extension lec- tures. Prof. W. D. Henderson will de- liver an address on "The Boy Prob- lem" at the Detroit Y. M. C. A. Friday evening. Further engagements are to be announced at an early date. Prof. W. W. Florer will deliver a lecture at a meeting of the German Society in Lansing Saturday, when the 100th an- niversary of the battle of Leipzig will be celebrated. The scope of the state extension work this year is to have various organiza- tions, in adjacent territory, co-oper- ate with each other, making some one place their headquarters, so that the specified 300 lectures may reach a larger number of people. The upper peninsula received 50 lectures last year. The cities of Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Bay City, Kalama- zoo, Battle Creek and Flint were cov- ered by a series of 60 lectures. The granges of the state were assigned 50 and 20 were given to the fraternal organizations. The balance was scat- tered. New Rhetoric Instructor Appointed. Dr. Lyman Bryson, '10, has recent- ly been appointed instructor in rhet- oric by the board of regents. During his undergraduate days Mr. Bryson won the Field poetry prize, and since graduation he has been doing news-' paper work both in Omaha, Nebraska! and Detroit. day. Varsity Accumulates 21 to Extra Weight Counts Line Plunges. 0V in Tables will be placed in the front rooms and dining room for card playing and meals which visitors may order any time during the evening at "hamburger prices." There will be no regular program but special fea- tures including a card tournament will be introduced later. This will be a permanent Friday night arrangement at the Union and next Friday a contest will be conduct- ed to choose a suitable name. Slips will be handed out and a class pipe will be given for the accepted desig- nation. The committee is as follows: Maur- ice -Meyers, '14L, chairman; Perry Howard, '14, George Sisler, '15E, Her- bert Wilkins, '14, W. J. Clement, '15E, Henry C. Bogle, '15L, and Donald Sar- baugh, '16. CLASS FOOTBALL TO BEGIN OCT.20 With fifteen teams entered in the struggle for campus supremacy the interclass football season will open October 20, Each team will play the three others in its department before October 30, when the two teams from each department with the highest per- centage will go into thd finals. Each of the eight teams in the finals will play every other team,'and the winner of the campus championship will be determined by a percantage standing. All four classes in the lit- erary and engineering departments,, and the three law classes will be rep- resented by teams. The sophomore medics, the junior medics, the phar- mics, and the freshmen from the med- ic, dental and homeopathic and phar- mic departments will put the remain- ing four teams in the field. In an effort to put interclass foot- ball on a higher plane this year, Di- rector Rowe has arranged for expert coaching in addition to the aid which the members of his class in theoretical football will give the teams. The following five men will coach teams: D. A. Tucker, who coached the College of Minnesota two years; R. E. Kennington, who coadhed Butler Col- lege two years; William Collette, -of last year's Varsity; J. S. Crawford, who has had four years of college foot- ball; and J. C. Wiedrich, who played four years on Kansas University. FRESHMAN IS SMALLER THAN HIS ANTHROPOMETRIC CHART Wolverine football supporters as see a new, and heavier backfield action against the Michigan Ag Saturday, if the men Coach Yost u in yesterday's scrimmage continue show form. When Yost picked a Varsity to p against the reserve forces yester afternoon, incidentally behind clo gates, he used Bastian and Mead the halves and none other than"Bru Pontius at fullback. And it may said in passing that this combinati looked good, at least against I scrubs, for the three tore through I scrub lines for consistent gains, a only occasionafly were thrown f losses by 4ealous reserve cohorts. The remainder of the Varsity line bore little resemblance to the "regu] combination," and critics who w permitted to watch the rehearsal, I lieve that hte game was staged larg for the . benefit of the new backfi combination, and secondarily for t second string men who were used most of the line positions. The Varsity triumphed over t scrubs by a count of 21 to 0 in nea an hour's play, but the scoring was i the important part of the practi session. The important part was t manner in which the new backfe conducted itself. With Roehm dire ing the play from qu'arterback's pO the heavy backs appeared to adv tage, though naturally their work w a little crude in spots. Bastian plunged the line in ex&i lent style, while Pontius tore off number of gains by wading throu the opposing players. Mead als showed form both in ruIning with t ball and kicking. It is expected ti Yost will continue to try out the hea backfield during other practices t week. Pontius was obliged to leave t scrimmage toward the close, owing straining a leg muscle. The inju was not serious, however, and he not expected to be laid up. Galt w out in a suit yesterday, but did r take part in any active work. Bei ley, the other member of the hospi corps, ran signals with the team Y( lined up secondarily to the elev which went into scrimmage. The lineup of the scrimmagi teams follow: Varsity Srn Tessin...... .....L.E.......ta Cochran........L.T.....Dorran McHale ........... L.G..... R Traphagen........C......Peters Allmendinger..... R.G.....Crossm Raynsford, Scott.. R.T..... Rheinm Lyons............ R.E........We. Roehm.......... Q,........Meye Bastian.... .L.H........Co Pontius,Diehl....F.B.....Davids Mead..... . . . ..R.H. .. Saier, Jen FRESHMAN ADVISEES RECEIVE NAUtS OF THEIR ADVISOR BACK THIS FALL ed changes are contemplated by Coach I John L. Lavans, '14, shortstop on the Douglas in the personnel of the team to enter the arena against Hillsdale, their next opponents. From all re- ports obtainable Hillsdale will loom up much more formidably than the Ypsi- lanti eleven, and a quick improvement must be reached by the Michigan Freshman, if they are to leave the field next Saturday with their record still untarnished. With Craven and James, the two ends who showed the most promise in the early workouts, still on the hospit- al list, Douglas must find a new pair of flank men. Daily scrimmages are the order for this week, with no let-up from the grind for anyone save the cripples. The yearlings are expected to oppose the Varsity this afternoon in the regular mid-week game, and Coach Douglas will probably try out several new combinations of his players. PICTURES OF STUDENT LIFE WILL BE TAKEN BY FILM CO. Michigan will break.again into the movies on Saturday. The Universal Film Company has planned to repro- duce the underclass rush, the M.A.C. Michigan game, campus buildings and incidents of campus life, to be shown at the Panama Exposition. The films will also be used throughout the en- tire west, along with films taken at eight other leading universities. On Saturday at 1:30 o'clock a pano- rama picture of the student body will be taken on Ferry field. Seats are now being erected on the field to seat the crowds. Varsity baseball team in 1912 and part of 1913, and now a member of Mack's world's champion baseball team, is ex- pected to return to the university in the near future. Lavans will receive a share of the players' purse of the world series money and in speaking of the use he would put his money to, is reported to have said, "My dad staked me to about $2,000 to cover my expenses at the University of Michigan. That much of my money goes to him and the rest will go to pay my way through the coming year, which will be the last." If the new summer baseball rule which is now pending passes the Board in Control of athletics, Lavans may be eligible for Varsity baseball in the spring. This ruling might also make Clarence E. Lehr, '14L, former- ly with the Philadelphia nationals, eli- gible. COSMOPOLITANS WILL HOLD FIRST SMOKEFEST AT UNION Professors J. A. C. Hildner and E. A. Boucke of the board of advisers to for- eign students, Prosecutor George Burke, Managing Editor Maurice Toul- me, of The Michigan Daily, Manager Fred B. Foulk, of the "Cosmopolitan Student," President Selden Dickinson, of the Union, President Paul Blan- shard, of the Y. M. C. A., and President V. T. Maw, of the Chinese Students' club, will be the speakers at the first regular smoker of the Corda-Fratres Cosmopolitan club to be held Friday at 8:00 o'clock at the Michigan Union. Probably the smallest man ever en- rolled in the university is Edward endall, '17E, of Rochester, New York. Kendall is 18 years old, 4 feet 11 inch- es tall, and weighs 82 pounds. He could not be given the regular anthro- pometric examination, as every meas- 'urement was below the minimum of the chart. Theoretical Football Class Meets. Director Rowds clas in theoretical football has been organized and twen- ty seniors admitted to membership. The class will meet Wednesday andC Friday evenings at 7:00 o'clock and Saturday mornings at an hour to be determined later. Nine hundred freshmen yesterd received cards notifying them of t appointment of the faculty membe seniors and juniors who are to act the capacity of advisers during t present year. To care for this numb: of first year students, 120 facul members, 90 seniors and 70 junlc have been named under the new sy tem. According to an announcement sued yesterday, all those freshm who have not been notified as to the advisers, are to report at the office the Dean this morning between 8 : and 12:00 o'clock.